Wow -- nice interpretation. But, a little skewed. I wish it was 2-1/2 hours. It was 2-1/2 glasses. He knocks that back in about a 1/2 hour. My father, now 70 and with 57 years of drinking messing with his ability to relate to human beings, still does not seem to have found his face. I have deep compassion for him, but no longer have contact.

...wow, I get it! "In honor of my father"... As you sat with him (this vulnerable man who never found his face, the one trying to put the missing pieces of his life together)..., you opened yourself and demonstrated compassion. You honored your father by being 'in the moment' with him... in that '2- 1/2 hour window…, letting him share the kind of moment with you that your grandfather never shared with him in his 2 - 1/2 hour need. Your dad looked for his face from his father, but only found it through you. So, in honor of his father..., your dad gave you in the only way he learned from his father to give - through a limited 2 - 1/2 hour window. What an amazing story. Well done!